I have once worked as a counselor and center director in an NGO, providing in-kind social welfare assistance and counseling services to ethnic minority people and families. During my tenure, in addition to being responsible for center management, I was also responsible for social welfare application and approval procedures, home visits, emotional support and therapeutic counseling services, assessing the need for professional referrals.
In recent years, I have become a freelance worker, serving as a mindfulness instructor and organizing mindfulness workshops for school parents and students. I used to be a play therapy instructor at Heep Hong Society, and now serve as a mindfulness instructor and play therapy instructor for LoveXpress. After self-studying "Child-centered play therapy" and "Child-centered communication and parent-child play therapy" courses, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work in children's play therapy. I gained professional knowledge from my work experience and learned how to listen to children during play. By helping them express their inner voice, and at the same time provide appropriate and therapeutic responses to express deep care, I help children resolve their inner depression, relieve emotional disorders, and help children regain a healthy psychological and emotional foundation.
During the service, we observed that play therapy can help children improve their behavior, build self-esteem and self-confidence, and strengthen their minds. We firmly believe that if children can continue to have special therapeutic play time with their parents at home, it will definitely help them grow up healthily. Therefore, parents are strongly encouraged to learn "Parent-Child Play Therapy", master the principles and techniques of this therapy, and understand how to improve their children's emotional behaviour through accurate listening and appropriate responses in games and daily life, thus effectively promoting parent-child relationships. , and provide more effective discipline.
I am grateful for the opportunity to be exposed to mindfulness in recent years. I have started to practice mindfulness when I studied mindfulness stress reduction course (MBSR) and mindfulness cognitive therapy course (MBCT), and it has become a part of my life. I have experienced that practicing mindfulness can consciously be aware of one's own thoughts and emotions. and body reactions, and accept all your "now" experiences as they really are with a loving heart.
In addition, I have studied teacher training courses that combine mindfulness and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) (MBSEL), two major Western positive emotional education courses, and engaged in school services to promote this teaching aid program to primary and secondary schools, kindergarten schools support students, parents and teachers so that they can be aware of their own emotions, behaviors, obstacles and potentials from the inside out through mindfulness and emotional social learning from the outside in, and learn to be aware of and respect the feelings and needs of others. Master effective and healthy communication methods to make responsible decisions.
What is deeply encouraging is the observation that service users can relieve stress through practicing meditation, open up space for positive growth for themselves, and comprehensively promote their autonomy in emotions, behavior, social interaction, and learning motivation.
